Star actresses Olivia O’Neill and Lidya Jewett describe what their characters are like on film for “The Exorcist: Believer” movie and give their thoughts on Director David Gordon Green during their interview. Check it out.
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00:00 I think that's the thing is probably like Catherine makes Angela talk to people and then Angela is more like okay
00:05 Let's like chill out for a second, please
00:07 I think the dynamic is a lot like ours, but yeah because I'm where the introvert and she's more the extrovert so
00:13 What can I say, but it kind of is that dynamic? I feel like just opposite. Yeah
00:18 When you're doing your you know your character research, and you're getting into the role not only do you have to discover who?
00:25 Catherine is right so that's one you gotta know who Catherine is you gotta know who demon Catherine is and then you gotta know everything
00:31 In between because obviously there's stages we have like stage one stage two stage three like we have all these stages
00:36 And so I kind of wanted to create
00:38 So you could clearly see where these stages were but also they blend together very well in a very
00:46 True way to I guess how it would when you're possessed so it was like
00:52 two main characters to build but also all these different characters and variations in between
00:57 which is something that was so cool to do and my youtube search history is like weird possession videos, but
01:05 You know I have an excuse
01:08 I think that's what David is also great with is he shows us like
01:13 What what he's thinking for the stages and the levels like you I think he told me once like
01:18 Percentages of how much we're crazy or something like that and that helps us sort of visualize
01:23 The idea that we're going for because some scenes he'll have me do them a stoic way like just like no emotion
01:30 And some scenes he'll have me do them as sweet Angela, and then some scenes
01:33 He'll have me do them super aggressive, and so I think that sort of shows how fluid it is I
01:39 Think the makeup definitely helps because you have sort of a place to go to
01:44 But I think for the like 50% demon. I think it's more of a that's that's the fun part is finding
01:51 How you can do that without like makeup to work like I have this big bulge on the side of my head so sometimes in
01:56 A scene I'll like turn like that so like the light can catch it and everything right, but when I don't have it
02:00 It's more fun to see the different ways you can show that aggression or that
02:05 Difference and mentality from regular Angela to demon Angela. I think that's the fun and challenging part is finding those differences
02:14 you know
02:15 I'm so excited for
02:17 I guess the viewers to see all the nods and all the different references in there
02:22 Because a lot of them aren't just put in plain sight a lot of them you got to
02:26 Keep your eye out for listen closely, so I
02:30 Think I think it's really well done. How it's something of its own, but it's also paying lots of respect to the original
02:38 Well, I am a huge Hamilton nerd
02:42 Huge loved it so much, and so I was so excited to meet him
02:46 Just because of everything everything he's done in the past as well though in acting as well
02:49 But it's really cool to see like he's the type of person to really get into his character like there was in like you said
02:57 the emergency the emergency room scenes
02:59 it's
03:02 Victor being reunited with his only family basically and so what he did on that day is instead of that was one of the first
03:09 Few scenes that we had filmed together actually but on that day
03:11 Since he's being reunited with Angela. He did not want to look at me like wherever we were sitting
03:16 He didn't want to see me. He didn't want to
03:18 Interact with me because he wanted that fresh feeling of not having seen me having gotten his daughter back
03:25 You know and so I really respect people who take their character seriously because that just makes the film better in general I
03:31 Hope it does have
03:34 that
03:36 impact that the original had
03:39 And I also hope that people walk out of it
03:41 Thinking like wow they really paid respect to the original they they did its respects and
03:47 Shooken up you know when you just walk out of the theater, and you like
03:53 Yeah, I think those are kind of I think the main things I I'm hoping people can can feel when they're watching that